I wrote a lot of poetry in college. (Don't worry, that was pre-web so I have no links to subject you to). When I was doing it regularly, thoughts would come to me in poetic terms, or a snippet of conversation would spur an idea. The more I wrote, the
As you've probably heard, President Obama referred to rapper Kanye West as a "jackass" after West crashed the stage at the Video Music Awards and stole the mic from blah blah blah I don't care. Obama made the comment in a pre-interview conversation with CNBC's John Harwood, who understood the
This morning The Mrs and I took The Boy to the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (as I was required to write it when I was a reporter) for the North Carolina Literary Festival. The two of them went to listen to children's book authors
My colleague Alison Bolen, editor of sascom magazine and the sascom voices blog, does a great job coaching our bloggers here at SAS. We had a meeting last week with a group of bloggers to help them deal with some of the issues involved in blogging regularly while at the
Six months or so ago I created a FriendFeed account, because lots of people were saying it was better than Twitter. I set it up to pull in all my accounts, including my Netflix queue (why?), then pretty much left it alone. Earlier this week I set up a Posterous
One of our SAS cybersleuths just notified me that some good guys have identified a vulnerability in Twitter that could allow the bad guys to take over your Twitter account, and all you'd have to do to allow it is view a tweet. Maybe you read about it at Techcrunch.
I just read a great post from David Armano called "Social Media's Top 10 Dirty Little Secrets," pointing out some of the things many of us are thinking but not saying. I, for one, am getting tired of the social media fishbowl where "experts" share their opinions on the necessity
I'm in Charlotte, NC today for the Social Fresh social media conference. I'm on the Social Media B2B panel with Nathan Gilliatt and Jeff Cohen, moderated by Kipp Bodnar. When we met a few weeks ago, we decided we wanted to share stories, engage the audience and interact with them,
I got a lot of positive comments on my Four Step Plan for Getting Started in Social Media. It reminded me that people are at all different levels of knowledge and interest in social media. When you spend all day thinking about it and using it, it's easy to forget
Because of my job as social media manager at SAS, a lot of people ask me how to get started in social media. I'm working on several different resources to help our sales, marketing and communications folks understand how to integrate social media into their activities and provide bottom-line value.